Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Address of the President to Congress December 2, 1913

File No. 723.2515/268.

The American Minister to Chile to the Secretary of State.

No. 165.]

American Legation,
Santiago, January 9, 1912.

Sir: I have the honor to report that the project of representation of the Provinces of Tacna and Arica in the Chilean Congress has made no further progress in the House, where it has met obstruction at the hands of one of the minority parties, which seems to wish to he assured as to the distribution of the seats in the Senate and House before agreeing to its passage.

I have [etc.]

Henry P. Fletcher.